About a week before he was killed in Iraq, Pfc. John Hart called his parents and said he was concerned because soldiers didn’t have enough protection. His parents’ efforts to help came too late for John, but have saved the lives of others.

More reporters are saying that editors knew about the phone hacking at News of the World, calling into question James Murdoch’s claims that he knew nothing when he led News Corporation’s British operations.

The Penn State University sexual abuse scandal has people asking why someone didn’t act sooner to stop the abuse? For instance, how could a grown man say he witnessed a rape and not call the police immediately? Psychologists say the “bystander effect” may be at play.

On Sept. 11 Michael Benfante carried a woman in a wheelchair down 68 floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center to safety. Everyone called him a hero, but ten years on he can’t stop thinking of the firemen he passed on the way down.

Confessed Norway attacker Anders Breivik may have been influenced by the British nationalist group, the English Defence League, whose members are against immigration and believe Muslims are culturally incompatible with westerners.

After reports that the blogger known as “A Gay Girl In Damascus” was detained by Syrian police, questions have emerged as to whether she’s even a real person. We sort through the details with NPR senior social media strategist Andy Carvin.

Springerville, Arizona resident Wesley McBride had to leave his home yesterday because of the massive Wallow wildfire. Now he says he’s acting as a “keyboard cowboy,” blogging to keep community members up to date on the fires.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is grappling with a string of natural disasters across the country. What is the agency doing to avoid the kinds of mistakes that plagued it in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

Journalist Sebastian Junger was supposed to be in Libya, covering the conflict there with photojournalist Tim Hetherington last month. A personal matter kept him home, when Hetherington and another photographer, Chris Hondros, were killed in a battle in Misrata.